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...Strong, clear trends in bonds, commodities and currencies have yielded big gains for both groups....
...“PE managers can’t game this metric with credit lines, but it hasn’t yet reached the IRR’s acceptance level,” says Mr Hooke....
...for use in a smaller group of patients....
...JPMorgan and Chase Manhattan agreed to combine and Credit Suisse swallowed Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in 2000....
...Conservative hedge funds are a “superior anchor” for a portfolio, Mr Inker wrote....
...Three now says that 3.1m customers use its 4G just 10 months on from its commercial launch – more than a third of its 8m total....
...Talking over breakfast in a New York hotel, he still looks like the archetypal tech entrepreneur: focused and somewhat intense, wearing a black polo shirt and charcoal V-neck....
...Trafigura did not disclose a price for its 30 per cent holding in a copper smelter belonging to state-owned Jinchuan Group, China’s top nickel miner and one of its largest copper producers....
...But staying on Foxton’s, there was this bland disclosure of risks in its listing prospectus: The Group is subject to laws and regulations with which it may be found to be non-compliant.The Group could be...
...By business new europe PPF Group, the investment vehicle of Czech tycoon Petr Kellner, is in the preliminary stages of planning an international IPO of its subsidiary holding Home Credit B.V....
...“However, Moody’s also wants to stress that it continues to view Spain as a much stronger credit than other stressed Euro zone countries....
...“Most investors have abandoned hope for a clean V-shaped recovery and are now extremely data-point sensitive,” said Lawrence Creatura, vice-president and portfolio manager at Federated Clover Investment...
...” … Nothing excuses the lack of savvy shown by the commercial banks. They took losses because of their own greed and ignorance....
...in just a few days,’’ says Hisham Abu Jamee, chief investment officer at Bakheet Investment Group....
...crunch have disappeared amid a decline in asset-backed commercial paper financing....
...In April, Julius Meinl V, a prominent banker, was detained and released on €100m bail in connection with an investigation into allegations of fraud at Meinl European Land, a quoted property group....
...Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs had maintained they did not need a large balance sheet to compete with commercial banks because of their superior advisory capabilities and the ability to fund themselves...
...Yet many believe London should be given credit for tying up the bulk of its sponsorship before the worst of the recession took hold....
...“It started in subprime mortgages, then it moved to prime mortgages, then to car financing,” says Mark Greene, chief executive of Fico, the US credit checking group. “Now it’s moving to credit cards.”...
...Among the largest investors in commercial paper are money market mutual funds....
...Well, commercial real estate is coming apart at the seams, credit card losses are surging and nobody knows yet just how bad things will get in Japan or Eastern Europe....
...Their writedowns are running at $1,000bn (€795bn, £725bn), according to the Institute for International Finance, the banking groups’ Washington lobby group....
...ICICI’s managing director, K V Kamath, called the rumours “baseless and malicious”....
...(Hill v. Heritage Resources, Inc., 964 S.W.2d 89 (Tex.App. 1997)) Related links Clear Channel deal in tatters – FT Lex: LBO at a crossroads – FT...
...In other corporate news, Boeing , the commercial aircraft maker and a partner received a $10.4bn contract for the V-22 Osprey. Boeing shares added 1.2 per cent to $74.37....
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